I followed the HiveLogic Ruby/Rails/Snow Leopard Install Guide and installed my own version of ruby/rails in /usr/local. Very straightforward and well reasoned guide. My installation did not work without some post-tweaking though. I had to change the /usr/local/bin/rake that gem installed to permissions 755. The “sudo gem install rake” command had the ownership/perms so that [...]
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I found I have to start eclipse with some new options to run 3.2 on Snow Leopard. $ ./eclipse -clean -consolelog -d32 -vm /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/bin/java I need to run the java 1.5 vm and use 32 architecture (Snow Leopard uses 64 bit java by default). I was getting all sorts off odd errors otherwise — class [...]
Ok I upgraded to OS X Leopard today at work. I am bummed to notice that NetInfo is gone. Had not been aware of that. Its replaced by dscl whatever that is. Apple dscl help page is pretty sparse on this. Basically, go read a manpage. Yeah, we all love those. Also lookupd is bye [...]
Ok this took me about 3 hours of tinkering and googling. But really it’s too hot to be doing anything else so I’m not complaining. Install ImageMagick ImageMagick-6.3.5 comes packaged as ImageMagick-universal-apple-darwin8.10.1.tar.gz. Scroll down the page to see the Mac OS X binary release, you can download as http or ftp from there. Save ImageMagick-universal-apple-darwin8.10.1.tar.gz [...]